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D.W. Publishes Report on Cuba’s Limited, Censured Wi-Fi, and “StreetNets”

In a recent video report, Deutsche Welle mentions that “Cuba is considered one of the countries with the least internet connection.”After the opening of 35 precarious WiFi hotspots last year, Cubans can now get a limited, expensive and censored view of the...

YVETTE GONZALEZ-NACER “Ava Gold” Supports Connect Cuba

As published in Latina Magazine, “Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, also now known as Ava Gold, is speaking up for Cuba,” specifically more open access to the internet in the island nation still considered to be the “least connected” in the entire western...

Cuba’s WiFi: “Expensive, Uncomfortable, and Dangerous”

As published in Diario de Cuba, “access to Internet for Cubans, via open WiFi zones in the country, is very expensive (2.00 CUC per hour, approx $2 U.S.D.), slow and far from achieving wide coverage.”In addition, “the 35 areas in Cuba designated to...

Workaround for 2.6 Million Cubans Who Want to Get a Peak at the Web

As published in Vice Motherboard, a nonprofit Miami based startup Apretaste, has “set up a system to allow Cubans to browse the web via email, which more people have access to. Only about 400,000 Cubans can freely browse the web, according to Apretaste, but 2.6...

“Determination, Patience,” Two Key Requisites for Accessing Limited Havana Wi-Fi

As published in WPLG Local 10, “Cuba has some of the lowest levels of connectivity worldwide. The government’s ETECSA runs a telecommunications monopoly. And when Google offered to improve the island’s Internet infrastructure free of charge, Raul...